The anonymous critic in the Boston Notion suggested that Poe's work was better suited for readers of the future people of the time should consider it "below the average of newspaper trash. Critical response Ĭontemporary reviews were mixed. Drayton was a former member of Congress turned judge and may have subsidized the book's publication. Manly, 1836), whom Poe likely met while stationed in Charleston, South Carolina when Drayton moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Poe continued to correspond with him. The collection was dedicated to Colonel William Drayton, anonymous author of The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists (Philadelphia: H. He wrote, "If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany but of the soul". In his preface, Poe wrote the now-famous quote defending himself from the criticism that his tales were part of "Germanism". Poe had sought Washington Irving to endorse the book, writing to him, "If I could be permitted to add even a word or two from yourself. Even so, Lea & Blanchard would not pay Poe any royalties his only payment was 20 free copies. The publisher was willing to print the collection based on the recent success of Poe's story " The Fall of the House of Usher". It was published by the Philadelphia firm Lea & Blanchard and released in two volumes. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
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